Photos from ACCESS-NRI research software engineers presenting and facilitating workshops at AMOS 2026
We had a fantastic week at #AMOS2026. As in previous years, it was wonderful to attend the many talks that use ACCESS models, data and tools in their research and the many discussions highlighting the value and importance of national research infrastructure for climate researchers #NCRISImpact
Our key data initiatives include:
- improving ACCESS output data specification
- an interactive ACCESS-NRI Intake catalogue
- community storage allocations on NCI's Gadi supercomputer.
All of these assist users in streamlining their research workflows.
Dr Joshua Torrance speaks into a microphone beside a slide titled "Data Management on Gadi".
How does ACCESS-NRI promote good data management?
At #AMOS2026, our data specialist Dr Joshua Torrance outlined how ACCESS-NRI is improving the FAIRness (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) of data in the ACCESS ecosystem.
#AMOS2026 has started at Nipaluna (Hobart) and the ACCESS-NRI team is participating with presentations, workshops and posters!
If you are in Hobart, visit our booth and win a pin, tote bag or T-shirt by giving us feedback about our infrastructure! 🏅
Our first ACCESStory newsletter for 2026 is live!
Discover:
🤝 ‘Collaboration Infrastructure' article about ACCESS-ESM1.6
👩💻 In conversation with Rachel Law from CSIRO
💬 Work Plan feedback opportunity
🌏 ACCESS-OM2 and ACCESS-rAM3 releases
📰 Community article summaries
Read it here: bit.ly/4au9zRb
🌏 Big news for Aussie climate research!
@access-nri.bsky.social 's ACCESS-rAM3 now runs on NCI supercomputers, giving scientists & students fast local insights into extreme weather, water security & climate impacts—no massive downloads needed!
Read more : nci.org.au/research/cas...
✨💻 We loved welcoming NYSF students to NCI to showcase how Australia’s national research infrastructure enables impactful science 🧬🧑🔬
Brilliant talks from NCI, @phenomicsaustralia.org.au & @access-nri.bsky.social, plus a tour of NCI data hall and ACCESS-NRI’s ocean simulator 🌊
Event contributors included @nci-australia.bsky.social, ACCESS-NRI, @phenomicsaustralia.org.au, and the ANU Climate & Fluid Physics Laboratory at the ANU Research School of Earth Sciences.
It's great to have strong collaboration between NCRIS facilities for outreach. #NCRISImpact
Thanks to Kial Stewart for a fantastic tour of the Climate & Fluids Laboratory that highlighted climate science research in an engaging, interactive way! And thank you to the @nci-australia.bsky.social for organising the event and running a tour of the Gadi supercomputer.
ACCESS-NRI staff Paige Martin and @penguianista.bsky.social provided thoughtful insights into their ‘squiggly’ careers that transitioned from science and mathematics academia to research software engineering. 📈
Collage of three separate photos. In the top photo, Paige Martin points at a PowerPoint slide showing her career path. In the bottom left photo, Kial Steward is demonstrating a fluids experiment in front of six students. In the bottom right photo, Paul Leopardi is presenting about his career to a group of more than ten students.
What does a career at the interface of software engineering 👩💻, climate science 🌏, and high-performance computing 💽 look like?
Students from the National Youth Science Forum (NYSF) found out at a recent collaborative event.
How well do climate models represent aerosols in the Southern Ocean? ☁️ 🌊
We spoke with Dr Sonya Fiddes from the Australian Antarctic Program Partnership (@antarctic.bsky.social) about her recent paper published in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.
🔗 Read our interview here: bit.ly/FiddesAerosols
Photo of the ACCESS Community members with the Shine Dome behind, taken during our 2024 ACCESS Community Workshop.
Thrilled to share our 2024-2025 Highlights Report!
Check out our achievements in engagement, training, model development, model release & more.
Huge thanks to the ACCESS community and our amazing team!
📑 Read more or download: zenodo.org/records/1762...
#ACCESSHighlights25 #NCRISImpact
Australia's climate future: new ACCESS model goes global - @access-nri.bsky.social l
www.access-nri.org.au/australias-c...
The CMIP7 submissions are led by CSIRO with support from the Australian Government’s National Environmental Science Program NESP Climate Systems Hub, along with ACCESS-NRI and @nci-australia.bsky.social both funded through the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS).
Background showing a simulation of Sea Surface Temperatures (SST) using the ACCESS-ESM model and a simulation of the Earth with Australian at the centre with the words: Autralia's climate future: ACCESS new model goes global
📢Big news for climate science in Australia! 🌏
This week, Australia’s latest climate model, ACCESS-ESM1.6, is ready to enter the global stage through the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP7), which will inform the next IPCC @ipcc.bsky.social report.
#NCRISImpact
📖Read more: bit.ly/497IQu5
🌏 Behind every COP summit is a massive global climate modeling effort that compares Earth system models around the world: #CMIP7. Read this article by @andyhogg.bsky.social and Tilo Ziehn about how Australia is participating to help predict our planet's future.
🔗 theconversation.com/behind-every...
🌍 Last week, 140+ Antarctic scientists came together in #Hobart for our ACEAS Research Forum 2025 to share the latest research and insights about the climate risks emerging from #Antarctica and the #SouthernOcean.
Read more: antarctic.org.au/aceas-resear...
Thank you to other ACCESS-NRI staff: Justin Kin Jun Hew, Tommy Gatti, Jasmeen Kaur, Paul Leopardi and Romain Boucher for your presentations and contributions!
- @andyhogg.bsky.social participated in a panel alongside @modeltheearth.bsky.social from @auscope.bsky.social, talking about the importance of supercomputing for Australasia 💻
- Kelsey Druken presented with Lesley Wyborn from @ardc.edu.au for a BoF session on preserving raw data for future science 💾
- Harshula Jayasuriya and Aidan Heerdegen collaborated with Emily Kahl from @pawseycentre.bsky.social for a BoF session on using Spack for building software environments 🏗️
The overarching theme of the conference was the value of enabling research through software and data. We are privileged at ACCESS-NRI to have this as our focus. 👨💻 👩💻
It was great to see the collaboration between ACCESS-NRI and other NCRIS facilities during the conference:
💡 Sharing knowledge and expertise with peers is important.
ACCESS-NRI had strong representation at the eResearch conference last week, with staff members participating in 10 sessions across the 3-day conference. 🧑🏫
Attending the eResearch Australasia Conference this week? Say hello at our exhibition stand, or attend a session featuring our fabulous staff!
View the full program here: conference.eresearch.edu.au/program/
Credits: this video was created by @pawseycentre.bsky.social and the visualisations were created using the @nci-australia.bsky.social supercomputer and in collaboration with multiple research organisations.
A fantastic video staring our visualisation expert Owen Kaluza, on the power of visualisations for climate and weather research. These visualisations are created using supercomputers like @pawseycentre.bsky.social and @nci-australia.bsky.social #NCRISImpact
Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4va...
Other highlights from this issue include:
- new partnership with the Australian Antarctic Division
- selected visualisation projects
- changes to help and support system
- releases of new models, tools and data
- new Research Software Community group
- upcoming events and recent publications.
Issue 15 of the ACCESStory newsletter is now available!
bit.ly/ACCESStory-I...
Our popular "In conversation with" section features interviews with ACCESS-NRI's recent PhD interns: Claire Yung and Jemma Jeffree.
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We are excited to share this important overview of #CMIP7! Australia is submitting one model configuration, ACCESS-ESM1.6, for the FastTrack component of CMIP7, and mobilising a large-scale initiative of researchers from many disciplines and institutions.
🔗Paper: bit.ly/3VSzIlO
🔗More: bit.ly/42vlGu5
📷Image credit: Adele Morrison, ANU
